SULLY, Iowa (AP) - Officials have released the name of an Iowa inmate who died while working at a truck wash business.
Department of Corrections spokesman Fred Scaletta says 26-year-old Willie Mercer was pronounced dead Tuesday at Sully Truck Wash in Sully. Officials have not determined his cause of death.
Two other employees were found unconscious near Mercer inside a tank trailer. They were hospitalized.
One of the two hospitalized employees was a another inmate. Thirty-six-year-old Justin Hurdel was discharged Thursday from University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Additional information about the third employee is not available.
Scaletta said in a news release Friday that Mercer and Hurdel were two of four inmates from a minimum security facility in Newton working for the business at the time.
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